Martin Wickens
Speaking the Truth in Love
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Forgiveness and Boundaries
Text: Genesis 42; Psalm 34:14–19 We must forgive, and in some ways we must forget, but this does not mean we do not establish boundaries to protect ourselves and others. Forgiveness does not have to mean putting ourselves in danger. Boundaries do not have to equate to bitterness. Introduction There is a lot of bad
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The Gospel is Not Complicated, but it Must Be Complete
James Outram Fraser and the Simple Gospel That Still Endures The Gospel is not complicated, but it must be complete. The Superbowl half time show has troubled me. Not because of the NFL’s choice of performers. Unsaved people chose unsaved performers to entertain mostly unsaved viewers. I would expect nothing more from them than what
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KJV Sword Bible
A few months ago a friend shared a link to the KJV Sword Bible – https://www.thekjvstore.com/kjv-sword-bible-large-print/ The website describes the Sword Bible as: The KJV Sword Bible offers a Bible-reading experience made even more enjoyable and enriching with an updated page design for increased readability, difficult terms underlined and defined at the ends of verses, the words
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Guidelines and Questions for Dating
One of the most important decisions that we make in life has to do with who we date and marry. In fact, it’s a series of decisions. It’s possible to overcomplicate dating as well as oversimply it. While it’s not good to date around and constantly get a broken heart, neither is it good to
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Principles Over Personalities: Venezuela and the Tribalism Trap
It is difficult to be consistently objective politically in a world that demands we always pick a team. We are often tempted to judge an action not by what was done, but by who did it Here are a few thoughts on President Trump and the current situation with Venezuela. Some are 100% against Trump
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Book Review: The Bridge of History Over the Gulf of Time
A paperback version of this book is available here: https://amzn.to/4qEVln1 This book review will be a little different as I want to say more about the author than I normally would. The Author – Thomas Cooper (1805-1892) Cooper was a 19th-century English writer, lecturer, and Christian apologist. He was born in Leicester, England. Cooper had
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Book Review: George Whitefield the Evangelist
Sometimes a great author writes on a subject that doesn’t interest me. But the author covers the uninteresting subject well. Sometimes a poor author writes of a great subject. On a rare occasion, a great author writes about an outstanding subject. This was one of those occasions. John Pollock is an outstanding author. I’ve read
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New Book: Eric – His Life Story
ERIC: A Life Forged in Poverty, Built on Love He made a man of himself without a blueprint, and became the father he never had. In 1925 London, Eric Langridge was born into absolute poverty. This is the raw, unvarnished story of a life defined by sheer grit and the refusal to be broken. From
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Ebenezer Scrooge – a Man Misremembered
In 1841, while walking through Canongate Kirkyard in Edinburgh, Charles Dickens noticed a weathered gravestone bearing a curious inscription. The man’s name was Ebenezer Scroggie, and Dickens believed the stone described him as “a mean man.” Dickens reportedly thought to himself, “How dreadful must a man be for such a verdict to be carved into